Three NFL underdogs pulled off outright upsets in Sundays late games, turning another ho-hum winning day into a monster day for Las Vegas sportsbooks.The Atlanta Falcons beating the Oakland Raiders 35-28 and the St. Louis Rams upending the Seattle Seahawks locked up a winning day for several sportsbooks. The Minnesota Vikings added to the books haul with a 17-14 upset of the Green Bay Packers in the prime-time game.Jason Simbal, vice president of race and sports for CG Technology, said the Falcons win over the Raiders produced his books biggest win, heading into the night game. CG Technology took a mid-to-high five-figure money-line bet on the Raiders to beat the Falcons straight-up and another five-figure bet in the same range on Oakland -4.Were looking at a winning day no matter what, Simbal said right before kickoff of the prime-time game. But itll be a huge day if the Vikings get there.Caesars Palace, MGM Resorts, Stations Casino and the Westgate SuperBook also said their days hinged on the late game. And they all needed the Vikings.MGM reported taking a six-figure money-line bet on the Packers. Caesars Palace had six times as many bets on Green Bay as Minnesota leading up to kickoff. And at the Westgate, nearly four times as much money had been bet on the Packers than the Vikings.Saturday was good, not great, William Hill director of trader Nick Bogdanovich told ESPN. Sunday was very good, close to great. All in all, a very good start for the books. Knock on wood.Patriots home underdogsThe New England Patriots, the consensus Super Bowl LI favorites, are underdogs for the second time in three weeks.The Patriots opened as 2.5-point home underdogs against the Houston Texans on Thursday in a battle of 2-0 teams at Gillette Stadium. Its the third time New England been a home underdog since 2006.With quarterback Tom Brady suspended and backup Jimmy Garoppolo injured, rookie quarterback Jacoby Brissett could start against the Texans. New England had been listed as a 3.5-point favorites over Houston prior to Garoppolos injury, but now begin the week as underdogs.Dating back to Bradys first start in 2001, the Patriots have won seven of their past nine games outright as home underdogs. They are 8-1 against the spread in those games.Garoppolo injured his right throwing shoulder in the second quarter of Sundays home win over the Miami Dolphins. According to ESPN sources and multiple media reports, Garoppolo suffered a sprained AC joint and will be assessed on Monday. ?Brissett replaced Garoppolo against Miami and completed 6 of 9 passes for 92 yards in the Patriots 31-24 victory.Garoppolo has been impressive in his two starts this season. He threw three touchdown passes without an interception in two and half quarters against the Dolphins, before being injured.Westgate SuperBook football oddsmaker Ed Salmons said the difference between Brady and Garroppolo to the point spread could be as low as 3-4 points.Canelo delivers blow to MGMCanelo Alvarez won his WBO light-middleweight title fight Saturday with a ninth-round TKO of the United Kingdoms Liam Smith at Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.Alvarez also delivered a couple of body shots to MGMs sportsbook along the way.Alvarez closed as high as a -1,600 favorite and attracted some large bets. Rood said his book took a loss on Alvarezs victory and saw lighter-than-normal handle overall on what has historically been a busy holiday weekend featuring a big fight.It was Mexican Independence Day, and if [Alvarez] would have been here, that would have been a huge weekend for us, Rood said. The fight being held in Texas instead of in Las Vegas reduced the handle on the bout at MGM sportsbooks by as much as 20 times, Rood said.It also limited the amount of money bet on the underdog.We lost, because anytime you have that scenario where you have a really strong favorite, youll have a couple of guys who bet the favorite big, Rood explained. And you dont have any offsetting square money on the dog. Thats the bad part of it. You get a lot of that dog money that walks up to the gate.$179,940 parlay hitsA bettor won $179,940 Saturday, when his three identical $20, 12-leg parlays hit. The bets -- each featuring the same dozen college football teams -- were placed at the Buffalo Bills Resort and Casino, in Primm, Nevada, near the California state line.The bettor took Western Michigan -3.5 (vs. Illinois), Colorado +20.5 (vs. Michigan), Toledo -20.5 (vs. Fresno State), Virginia Tech -5.5 (vs. Boston College), South Florida -14.5 (vs. Syracuse), San Diego State -10.5 (vs. Northern Illinois), Oklahoma State -5.5 (vs. Pittsburgh), Ohio State -1.5 (vs. Oklahoma), Navy -5.5 (vs. Tulane), California +7.5 (vs. Texas), Nevada -10.5 (vs. Buffalo) and Utah -13.5 (vs. San Jose State).The bettor asked to remain anonymous, but did tell the William Hill marketing department that he plays a 12-leg parlay every week during football season and had never hit one before Saturday. William Hill operates the sportsbook at Buffalo Bills. William Hill director of marketing Michael Grodsky said around a dozen 12-team parlays hit last football season at the companys 108 Nevada sportsbooks. Air Force One Homme Pas Cher . Nine days before the opening ceremony, organizing committee chief Dmitry Chernyshenko said Wednesday that Sochi is "fully ready" and will deliver safe, friendly and well-run games that defy the grim reports that have overshadowed preparations. Air Force One Just Do It Pas Cher . -- Edmontons Val Sweeting is two wins away from a trip to Winnipeg to play in Canadas Road of the Rings in December. http://www.nikejustdoitchaussure.fr/pas-cher-max-tn-just-do-it.html . The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Lions have not announced the hiring, which was first reported by ESPN. Lombardi, the grandson of former Green Bay Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi, has been an offensive assistant on Sean Paytons New Orleans staff since 2007. Nike Just Do It Chaussure . The Swede became the first golfer to win the PGA Tours FedEx Cup and European Tours Race to Dubai in the same season. "It is still taking a little time to sink in what Ive achieved this week as was the case when I won the FedEx Cup but then it just kept getting better and better as the days went on and I am sure this will be the same," he said. Air Max 1 Just Do It Homme Pas Cher . Once again Jordan Cieciwa (@FitCityJordan) and I (@LynchOnSports) go head to head in our picks. Last weekend at UFC Fight Night 32 my #TeamLynch got the best of #TeamJC by a score of 9-6. Let us know which side youre on for UFC 167 use the hashtag #TeamLynch or #TeamJC on Twitter. RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Canadian lawyer who accused Russia of operating a state-run doping program is facing a deluge of requests for information on individual athletes implicated in his investigation.Richard McLaren, who was commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, issued a report that accused Russias sports ministry of overseeing doping among Olympic athletes in more than two dozen summer and winter sports.The IOC rejected calls by WADA and other anti-doping bodies to ban Russias entire Olympic team from the Rio de Janeiro Games. Instead, the International Olympic Committee asked individual sports federations to determine which Russian athletes would be cleared to compete.My office has been inundated with requests for information on individual athletes, McLaren said in a statement released late Friday from London, Ontario. The (IOC) decision has resulted in a deluge of requests to provide information to the IFs (international federations); Russian national federations; the Russian Olympic Committee; the Russian Paralympic Committee and individual Russian athletes.McLaren said he has provided information to WADA that names athletes whose urine samples were part of a state-run cover-up.WADA in turn has shared this information with IFs, he said.More than 100 Russian athletes have been barred from the games so far -- including the track and field team banned by the IAAF and more than 30 athletes excluded by other federations since the release of McLarens report. Russias entire weightlifting team was kicked out Friday.Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said Friday that 272 of the countrys original 387-strongg team had been approved by international sports federations to compete in Rio.ddddddddddddThe IOC has said that any Russian athlete with a prior sanction for doping would not be allowed into the games. Anyone implicated in McLarens report would also be excluded, the IOC said.McLaren said his mandate has been extended to finish the investigation and identify any further athletes that might have benefited from such manipulation to conceal positive doping tests.Until now, he said, the focus of his investigation was to look into evidence of a state-dictated program which used the Moscow and Sochi laboratories to cover up doping.It has not been to establish anti-doping rule violation cases against individual athletes, McLaren said, adding that it was not his job to process doping cases against individual athletes.I have, however, received a considerable amount of reliable evidence, which clearly implicates individual athletes in the state-dictated program described in the report, he said. That evidence includes documents supported by the testimony of confidential witnesses and in some cases additional forensic and analytical evidence from the examination of sample bottles and their contents.McLaren said his ongoing investigation includes developing evidence which may be used in the future to sanction individual athletes.At this stage, I will not release any of the specific information I currently have concerning any athletes, he said. To do so would compromise the
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